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Kiran Pfitzner, for Liberal Currents, draws on Prussian political-military theorist Carl von Clausewitz to argue for Supreme Court reform, addressing mainly charges that such a course of action would risk irreparable degradation of norms

More broadly, one might consider the role of escalation, norm violation, courage, and the balance of risks when it comes to fighting authoritarianism, especially incipient/escalating authoritarianism, and its implications for liberal politics globally

Pour vaincre, il nous faut de l'audace, encore l'audace, toujours l'audace, est la république est sauvee!

Ned Resnikoff (former policy director for California YIMBY, among other things) argues that wealth inequality is both a cause and a consequence of restrictive land use. This touches on the political economy of land use policy and the politics of YIMBYism as an incipient political movement, addressing its leftward critics.

Resnikoff's book Build or Die: How America Is Suffocating Its Cities and What to Do About It will be published on December 8th, 2026.

SS: Housing and Social Policy. Homelessness, especially visible urban homelessness, has come under intense scrutiny as emblematic of urban blight and misgovernance, which in turn has further fuelled reactionary sentiments against urban centres.

Traditional municipal authorities of all political stripes have largely failed to address the crisis either by misdiagnosing the cause or the cure, leading to a seemingly intractable issue deteriorating urban quality of life. This recent study from The Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) adds (Canadian) evidence to the growing body of literature (see Colburn and Aldern's Homelessness is a Housing Problem) specifically identifying housing prices as a driving factor of homelessness.

One may connect this to another growing body of literature identifying the role of abundant market rate housing - including at the higher end of the market - as instrumental in maintaining, growing, and keeping inexpensive the stock of affordable housing. Similarly, the relative dearth of subsidised housing - the focus of PM Carney's newly minted Crown Corporation, Build Canada Homes - and longstanding prohibitions against housing types such as rooming houses and SROs - have corroded the availability of the lowest rung of housing options.

Housing policy is instrumental to the maintenance of liberal governance. It is one of the largest expenses in a person's life, it is essential to their well-being, and it is a major component of the economy.

Hello everybody,

As we have opened up the sub again for participation I wanted to lay out a few points on the sub's general ethos and guidelines to get things started. This is very much a 'build the plane as you fly it' sort of deal so bear with us.

First, we would like this to generally be a place to avoids internet metadrama and gutter-fighting between online communities. This is particularly important in the early days in order to establish a posting culture thats not defined by negative polarization to other communities, which tends to degrade the quality of discussion.

Second, we would like to keep the focus on the sub broadly international. Some discussions will naturally trend towards being concerned with the specifics of particular countries, thats fine (and encouraged in some cases), discussions that could or should rightfully extend beyond national borders should avoid being constrained as such. Just try to be considerate of that.

Third, and relatedly, we would very much like to avoid things becoming too narrowly concerned with party-political horse-trading, at least in terms of posted content. It will come up inevitably, but we would prefer to privilege discussions of policy and ideology over political tactics, which as I'm sure we are all familiar with, the latter tends to utterly confound the former. This is not a place to endlessly relitigate what the optimal campaign strategies of the Democratic Party of the United States are. 

Fourth, we would like to encourage longer form participation. Avoid punditry, ragebait, and unsubstantive engagement. Please include flairs and submission statement explaining the relevance of your posts and, if its someone else's work, we encourage you to weigh in with your own analysis/interpretation (independent of the SS). Try to do so in detail, as appropriate. 

Fifth, Liberalism is a diverse tradition. This is not the place to try and insist that a particular variant is the standard bearer of liberalism in its totality. 

Let us know if you have any questions, need any details or clarification, etc

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